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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2018 13:21:00 GMT
It was good. No real complaints. It's somewhat formulaic in the script and the structure but that's kind of expected with Marvel Studios movies. But I enjoyed it. Pretty good political themes underlying the story. Solid performances and great set and costume design.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2018 13:39:58 GMT
It was good. No real complaints. It's somewhat formulaic in the script and the structure but that's kind of expected with Marvel Studios movies. But I enjoyed it. Pretty good political themes underlying the story. Solid performances and great set and costume design. I liked it as well except for the fact that Killmonger's dialog was mostly a long BLM commercial. *****Spoiler's Below******
The other thing that concerned me was the naiveté of T'Challa's decision to share Wakanda's secrets with the world. Apparently he neither read Robert A. Heinlein's short story "Methuselah's Children" or heard this song:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2018 18:05:04 GMT
It's impressive how effective Marvel have become at taking pretty basic plots and turning them into entertaining movies.
There was a lot of social justice nonsense in it (the sun will never set on our empire) but it was decent.
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Post by Jam Jar on Jun 12, 2018 20:33:07 GMT
Most of the Killmonger stuff is deliberate (something a lot of black people seem to have missed). He has a massive chip on his shoulder primarily based on his fatherless upbringing (interesting) and he turns that anger into an issue of race. All of the militant BLM stuff comes directly from him but it's bogus nonsense and the whole point of the film is that HE is wrong -- he is the bad guy.
Again, I think a lot of black people missed this (busy as they were booking flights to Wakanda).
The most telling line for me was when Killmonger says he would rather die, like his ancestors who jumped off the ships. This is a great line from the writers because it reminds us yet again, that he is full of shit. In reality, Killmonger's ancestors were ALL privileged Wakandans. Everyone in his lineage was a Wakandan surrounded by prosperity and technology and freedom. Killmonger's ancestors were NOT on the ships. He is the first of his family to have been born outside of Wakanda. And yet despite having this history of privilege that had NO relationship to slavery WHATSOEVER, he still sees himself as the oppressed descendant of slaves. Why?
Because 1) he is angry and wants to justify his anger and 2) because he has been taught that it's acceptable to appropriate the tragedy and oppression of those... who happen to look like you.
The film makes it clear that HE is the villain. That he is an angry man whose anger has made him see his life purely in terms of... what colour am I?
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